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The Global, Virtual/Digital, Open, Free, {potentially Degree- and Credit-Granting},
Multilingual University & School
where anyone can teach or take a class or course

Welcome to World University and School, a global, virtual, digital, open, (potentially degree-granting - bachelor, Ph.D., I.B., law, M.D., & Music School, etc.), free-to-students, university and school, with great universities (e.g. MIT OCW, Ivy League Schools, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, Oxford, T.U.M., Sorbonne, L.M.U., Juilliard Music School, Cambridge, Collège de France, Cal Tech, B.T.U., University of Chicago, etc.) as key web content generators, based on a Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware model, especially for the developing world, and for everyone.

Mission

World University & School's (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware) - mission, in reaching out to the entire world, is to provide a free, wiki-based education platform and, through facilitating the development of broadband worldwide, to make our service accessible to under served parts of the world. The WUaS mission is thus to facilitate all levels of teaching and learning opportunities (and future degrees) through an open, editable wiki in all languages, nation-states and subjects with great universities, and for One Laptop per Child countries and everyone.

World University and School’s Business Plan
June 2013

- Why World University and School and WUaS’s team?

World University and School’s team’s international focus makes possible WUaS’s plan to offer accredited, Creative Commons’ licensed, free, MIT OCW-centric, online, university degrees in many languages and countries: bachelor, Ph.D., law, and M.D., as well as I.B. high school diplomas. WUaS’s team international focus also facilitates open wiki-schools, for people-to-people teaching in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries.

- Why should we believe WUaS? (i.e. what is your track record)

World University and School just received the 'green light' from the state of California to begin the accreditation process in May 2014.

WUaS incorporated in 2010 as an educational organization in California, and received federal, 501 (c) (3) tax exempt status in 2011, and has approximately 580 wiki, subject pages. Accreditation, first in California and with BPPE and WASC senior is a three stage process, where WUaS must graduate its first undergraduate class before receiving full accreditation in 2018. WUaS has a long track record of institutionalizing as an online, startup, MIT OCW-centric university and long term goals and plans.

- Why WUaS?

WUaS will benefit a lot of people with free, MIT OCW-centric university degrees, as well as with schools in all languages. Since these schools, universities and degrees are Creative Commons’ licensed, they will be free, furthering, particularly benefitting the poor as they get mobile computers. WUaS also has a specific educational focus to provide free, online education in the developing world.

- How and why WUaS will run its business: from infrastructure, to customer relationship, to maintenance.

WUaS develops wiki pages are the platform, and WUaS will move to the new Wikidata repository (being written for Wikipedia’s 285 languages). WUaS aggregates great universities’ OpenCourseWare, such as MIT OCW and Yale OYC, and eventually in all languages and countries. WUaS plans to accredit on these Creative Commons’ licensed resources, in all 200+ countries.

WUaS information technology department will do I.T. maintenance and handle related Wiki and I.T. developments, planned for all languages.

As a startup, online university, WUaS’s graduate student instructor’s will be one way WUaS develops relationships with customers, that is students. WUaS is also planning to hire technical support people, perhaps with office hours in a Google + Hangout.

WUaS uses monthly business meeting process in the manner of Quakers as its locus of decision-making, and will thus inform how WUaS runs its business.

- Financial analysis.

A.
WUaS seeks to build a $20-$50 million dollar endowment as a 5 year target. Within 5 years, WUaS plans to acquire the endowment base necessary to sustain this business with 100,000 students and 2,000 instructors.

WUaS plans to raise funds from governments, universities, philanthropic foundations, and companies as well as individuals.

B.
WUaS is also planning an online bookstore / computer store and in all languages and countries, for textbooks, intellectual resources, musical instruments for students at WUaS, with a plan to charge 2% less than the competition in various countries (probably on the order fulfillment side).

WUaS also is planning on-the-ground bookstores at some point in the future, perhaps near Apple Computer stores in cosmopolitan cities of learning around the globe.

C.
WUaS is also planning an online academic publishing house, both of books and journals, in multiple disciplines in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries.

- Market analysis - looking at market size and who our customers are.

Markets are numbers of people willing to spend the hours studying at MIT OCW-centric WUaS for free degrees.

WUaS’s market includes all countries.

Since WUaS is free, Creative Commons’ licensed and accrediting, our current competition / peers include the free edX, Coursera and Udacity. But WUaS plans to become a Tier 1, online university, the MIT / Harvard of the internet, and remain Creative Commons’ licensed.

- How many people will WUaS hire, when do we need them, how many thousands of hours of instructors' time?

WUaS may eventually hire 100s of thousands of people. WUaS would benefit greatly with 20 interns this autumn 2013. In the autumn of 2014, and depending on the number of matriculated, undergraduate students, planning to take 32 MIT OCW-centric courses for an undergraduate degree, - ideally 2000 1st year students, WUaS would like to hire graduate students for 30 different undergraduate classes, each class having a maximum of 15 students per section.

- Implementation roadmap: how are you planning to grow in the future and the financial forecasts.

World University and School’s team’s international focus makes possible WUaS’s plan to offer accredited, Creative Commons’ licensed, free, MIT OCW-centric, online, university degrees in many languages and countries: bachelor, Ph.D., law, and M.D., as well as I.B. high school diplomas. WUaS’s team international focus also facilitates open wiki-schools, for people-to-people teaching in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries.

WUaS seeks to build a $20-$50 million dollar endowment as a 5 year target. Within 5 years, WUaS plans to acquire the endowment base necessary to sustain this business with 100,000 students and 2,000 instructors. ... $20-$50 mn ($1mn-$5mn revenue).

WUaS is also planning an online bookstore / computer store and in all languages and countries, for textbooks, intellectual resources, musical instruments for students at WUaS, with a plan to charge 2% less than the competition in various countries (probably on the order fulfillment side).

2. THE TEAM

World University and School's General Board of Clerks / Directors / Trustees

To facilitate all levels of teaching and learning opportunities (and potentially degrees, eventually) through an open, editable wiki in all languages, nation-states and subjects with great universities, and for One Laptop per Child countries and everyone, World University and School needs an endowment which we will seek to grow through grants and other funding sources.

World University and School would like to build a $1.5 trillion U.S. dollar endowment in the first 10 years, and an additional $1.5 trillion dollar endowment, in the second 10 years.

WUaS Business

World University and School will raise funds for World University and School's endowment.

The primary goal of this business is to build an endowment of U.S. $1.5 trillion (in 2009 dollars) in 10 years (by 2020) to support development of World University and School, and another U.S. $1.5 trillion in the second 10 years (by 2030).

We would like to make an university and school for all One Laptop Per Child countries, and indeed all languages, nation states, subjects, and levels.

The WUaS foundation will pay a large network of teachers and salaries, partner with great universities, and facilitate connecting with the poorest parts of the world and the developing world.

Like One Laptop per Child relationships with countries and governments

For this 2009 tax year, we'd like to raise $400,000.

$1 million in 2010

Endowment goals

Fiscal year, 2013 (ending December 31, 2013):

$200,000 dollars in this first year

= $30,000 in January 2013, and $85,000 in each subsequent month

1 million dollars in the 2nd year

20 million dollars in the 3rd year

30 million in the 4th year

100 million in the 5th year

200 million in the 6th year

300 million in the 7th year

400 million in the 8th year

500 million in the 9th year

leading to $1.5 trillion in the 10th year

Compensation for Universitians (what World University calls its participants).

Goal in 2010: $1,000,000 the first year, the remainder of which doesn't get spent (below $600,000?) goes into the Endowment

1 General Manager $70,000 – who is the Go To person
1 Head Fundraiser $50,000 - (+ 50% of 1st $100,000, 40% of next $250,000 they raise) – to build a growing team of fundraisers. Develops plan for $1.5 trillion endowment over 10 years.

Each of these could hire 1-5 interns in the first year.

While WUaS is 'placeless,' a number of the first Universitians live in or around Berkeley, California, and we'd like to hire, for example, 2-10 UC Berkeley or Stanford University interns @ $11.50 an hour (but also, potentially, the brightest 20-25 year old students in the world e.g. MIT, Ivy League students, University of Tokyo, Michigan, Cambridge, Oxford, Berlin, etc.) for up to 20 hours a week, posting the job possibilities on the WUaS wiki page. We'd like to then hire 20-100 interns in the 2nd year.

The initial intern positions would focus on the following:

Intern positions

The following would report to the 'Head of Fundraising and Fiduciary Responsibility' (a Quaker):

1 intern head of grant writing (e.g. Bill and Melinda Gates' foundation, Buffett, Sloan, Soros, Silicon Valley computer company foundations, all of the Domini Social Equity Corporations' Foundations (companies that have met socially responsible and activist screens)
1 intern head of corporate liaisons (where WUaS could offer accounting courses for companies, and related course development as 'thank you' courses, for significant grants)
1 intern head of U.C. Berkeley Anthropology Department? liaison for pension and health benefits
1 intern head of accounting
1 intern head of communication with Board members (for 5 person clerk board and for 100+ person board – a board member in every major city in the world?)
1 intern head of endowment management and planning (socially-conscious mutual fund indexing approach).

The following report to the General Manager:

1 intern head of WUaS Universitian community building – like Wikipedians – Everyone can teach – new content generators with web cameras
1 intern head of wiki Academic sections, for eventual degrees
1 intern head of One Laptop per Child wiki languages' development
1 intern head of wiki, new, open Teaching and Learning content aggregation
1 intern head of wiki and other Information Technology technical development – including Google Wave
1 intern head of languages' development – liaison with other WUaS languages
1 intern head of nation-state wiki – and eventual accreditation in each
1 intern head of Second Life island development
1 intern head of New Intern Development – nascent Human Resources position – job descriptions
1 intern head of legal questions - Creative Commons law
1 intern head of outreach, marketing and branding
1 intern head of Minutes for all the committees, each of the above being a committee, facilitating and training other recording clerks
1 intern head of Medical School and hospital development
1 intern head of Music School
1 intern head of Design
1 intern head of New Schools (e.g. Law, Veterinary, Dental)

Someone experienced with managing rapid growth, and executing a business plan … to go from 0 Universitians to 100s of paid Universitians … and a much larger volunteer community of Universitians, like Wikipedians...

Someone experienced with a multiple LANGUAGES' wiki, with a group-knowledge focus

Initially we'll target Wikia and open source users (Wikipedia, GlobalVoicesOnline.org), and students at great universities, and OLPC languages, and expand from there.

World University and School is in the process of incorporating and has 5 board members, a C.F.O./treasurer and a secretary/recording clerk.

We're not only developing education jobs (we would like to hire a lot of Ph.D.s, after interns), we would also like to build everything associated with modern education, almost exclusively digitally. For example, an online hospital for teaching and learning, an online dental school, veterinary medicine school, etc., as well as potentially develop hardware like video-capable, wireless handheld devices, for 3000-8000 languages. WUaS is open to all subjects, but will stay away from weapons, bomb, nuclear-weapon and related teaching and learning material. In creating World University & School, we're developing a free, open, virtual university & school, potentially in all languages, nation states, subjects and at all levels.

WUaS is a compelling idea that needs support to be realized.

"All Ways Free" to students. Budget for this in perpetuity (perhaps like Tokyo University and Scandinavian universities).

Year 2010

Quarter 1

Start World University & School, as a nonprofit corporation in California, U.S.A.

Engage General Manager and Head Fundraiser interns

Hire 2-10 interns this year

Quarter 2

Quarter 3

Quarter 4

Year 2011

Hire 20-70 interns this year

Plan for mobile video capable device acquisitions, like OLPC handhelds with video, for OLPC countries, to complement OLPC areas, and to reach out to other populations.

WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources

Ideas

"Most schools have their money in roughly four buckets: 1) general, 2) plant, 3) endowment, and 4) grants. Most for-profits, Jim notes, have just one such bucket; the nature of the accounting in schools is different in this important way. There are three types of money: 3) permanently restricted (e.g., many endowed funds); 2) temporarily restricted (e.g., grants and other “use-it-or-lose-it money”); and 3) unrestricted (within reason; the board can still constrain its usage somewhat, if needed). Jim emphasized the importance for heads of institutions to be the “translator” of the financial issues related to the school for the community at large. He cites to Herzlinger’s four questions that we (as leaders and trustees) should ask about the financials regularly: 1) are the organization’s goals consistent with its resources?; 2) are the sources and uses of resources matched?; 3) is there intergenerational equity?; and, 4) are present resources sustainable? ”High performing organizations aren’t just lucky,” Jim tells us. Another good line: in education, “you can’t cut your way to prosperity.”" (Harvard business school Professor James P. Honan)

Publish my article in a WUaS academic journal in this subject

(WUaS's wiki, information technologies and criteria for this - informed by the WUaS academic journal subject matter - are developing, since you can already publish your article at http://www.academia.edu).

Additional Categories

Admissions at World University and School

Flyer seeking degree-oriented, WUaS students: 'Quaker-informed World University & School seeks friendly, undergraduate students for free, online, MIT OCW-centric, bachelor’s degrees to apply in the autumn of 2013, for matriculation in autumn 2014' - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSFriendsFlyerforProspectiveStudentApplicants.pdf - and accessible here, also - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSNoticeArchive.html. WUaS holds open, electronically-mediated, hour-long, monthly business meeting on the second Saturdays at 9 am Pacific Time, in the manner of Quakers - email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if you'd like to participate.

Counseling

Coordinates

... in a virtual world

Credits

Many thanks to each of you!

Please feel free to hyperlink your name to a location of your choice (or tell WUaS where to link to - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com). Please do not hesitate to let WUaS know if you think that somebody (including yourself) has been forgotten, now or in the future; please include a URL, which is, of course, one main way identity created on the internet.

Wikidata / Bots

World University and School Licensing

World University and School incorporated as a nonprofit in April 2010 and is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity, as of 2011.

World University & School is a community of learners and teachers who value — and are themselves strengthened by — the rich diversity of its participants. In order to cultivate a flourishing teaching, learning and creating conversation in a diverse and complex world, WUaS welcomes all languages, students, families, faculty, board members, and staff with differences based on (but not limited to) race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, family structure, and economic background.